Terror indictment: Breivik shot 56 victims in head

Terror indictment: Breivik shot 56 victims in head

1of5FILE - This is a Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 file photo of Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, as arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway. Norwegian prosecutors on Wednesday March 7, 2012 indicted Anders Behring Breivik on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage but said the confessed mass killer likely won't go to prison for the country's worst peacetime massacre. Prosecutors said they consider the 33-year-old right-wing extremist psychotic and will seek a sentence of involuntary commitment to psychiatric care instead of imprisonment unless new information about his mental health emerges during the trial set to start in April. (AP Photo/Heiko Junge, Scanpix Norway, File) NORWAY OUTPhoto: Heiko Junge

2of5Defence lawyers Tord Jordet, left, and Odd Ivar Groen arrive outside Ila prison near Oslo Wednesday March 7, 2012 to visit their client Anders Behring Breivik before he was presented with the indictment. Prosecutors will unveil the indictment against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who is expected to face terror charges for a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a political party's youth camp. (AP Photo/. Eivind Griffith Braende, Scanpix Norway) NORWAY OUTPhoto: Braende, Eivind Griffith

3of5Prosecutors Inga Bejer Engh, left and Svein Holden seen on press conference in Oslo March 7, 2012, where they published the indictment presented to Anders Behring Breivik The prosecutors unveiled the indictment against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who is expected to face terror charges for a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a political party's youth camp. (AP Photo/Lise Aserud, Scanpix Norway) NORWAY OUTPhoto: Lise Aserud

4of5Prosecutors Inga Bejer Engh. first left, and Svein Holden, 2nd left, are surrounded by photographers and reporters on press conference in Oslo Wednesday March 7, 2012, where they published the indictment presented to Anders Behring Breivik. The prosecutors unveiled the indictment against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who is expected to face terror charges for a bombing in downtown Oslo and a shooting massacre at a political party's youth camp. (AP Photo/Lise Aserud, Scanpix Norway) NORWAY OUTPhoto: Lise Aserud

OSLO, Norway - Exactly 100 people were shot, some of them up to eight times, before the gunman surrendered to police. Of the 69 people killed, 56 were shot in the head. One drowned and another fell off a cliff in desperate attempts to flee the mayhem.

The indictment against confessed killer and right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, unveiled Wednesday, describes the horror unleashed on a political youth camp July 22 with gruesome detail.

"Panic and mortal fear in children, youth and adults arose during the shooting, further intensified by the fact that there were limited possibilities of escape or hiding," prosecutors said in a 19-page document charging Breivik with terrorism and premeditated murder.

Calls victims 'traitors'

Breivik, 33, has confessed to the massacre on Utoya island and a bombing that killed eight in Oslo on the same day, but denies criminal guilt. In pretrial hearings, he has portrayed the victims as "traitors" for embracing immigration policies he claims will make Norway an Islamic colony.

Breivik has been diagnosed as psychotic, and prosecutors said they would seek a sentence of compulsory psychiatric care instead of imprisonment, unless new information about his mental health emerges during the trial set to start April 16.

In either case, he could spend the rest of his life in captivity.

Most of dead in teens

The indictment traced Breivik's steps from parking a van with a 2,100-pound fertilizer bomb outside a high-rise housing the prime minister's office at 3:17 p.m. to his surrender to police on Utoya three hours and 18 minutes later.

"He ignited a fuse with a burn time of some seven minutes and … left the scene on foot to a previously parked getaway car," the indictment said. The eight people killed in the explosion were on the ground floor of the building or on a plaza near the van. Nine victims were seriously injured.

Armed with a rifle and handgun - both semi­automatic - and disguised as a policeman, he then drove to Utoya, where the left-leaning Labor Party's youth wing was holding its annual summer camp.

Most of those killed on Utoya were teen­agers, according to the indictment. It listed the 69 victims who died by name, age and how they were killed. It also listed 33 others who were shot but survived.

A police spokesman said outside Oslo's Ila prison, where Breivik is being held, that the confessed killer was "totally calm" when he was read the charges.

Breivik has rejected being mentally ill, and his lawyer said his client was "disappointed" that he was described that way in the indictment. He also rejects the authority of the Norwegian legal system, calling it a tool of left-leaning elites he claims have betrayed the country.